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By Jerry Brabenec
Les Bloom/Bruce Dondero Sextet
University Club
October 30
T HE LES BLOOM/Bruce Dondero
Sextet, winners of the 1982 WEMU
Depot Town Jazz Competition, will per-
form Saturday night, October 30th, at
the University Club in the Michigan
Union.
The slightly revamped sextet,
featuring Dondero's acoustic bass and
a horn section of sax, trumpet, and
trombone, will cover a wide variety, in-
cluding their own original material.
In its usual form, the sextet,
featuring a two-horn front line-
guitarist Mark Anderson and pianist
Andy Adamson, was one of the musical
highlights of the 1982 Ann Arbor Art
Fair. Performing on the Union Stage
and broadcast live over WCBN, the
group transcended the usual jazz pat-
tern of "head, solos and out," winning
over a large and appreciative crowd
with a painstakingly rehearsed, won-
derfully sensitive performance of the
extended Charles Mingus composition
"Sue's Changes."
Co-leader/saxophonist Les Bloom
spoke recently about the difficulties of
keeping a jazz band going in the rather
limited local music scene. He
reminisced about old Ann Arbor venues
like the Odyssey (now the Whiffletree
restaurant), the Golden Falcon (now
Maude's), and defunct Mexican eaterie
Loma Linda, all of which, in conjun-
ction with an extensive summer con-
cert series, provided a setting for more
local jazz.
The music scene of 1982 is far dif-
ferent, with only The Earle booking
jazz regularly. Usually it is in a piano
trio, cocktail sort of format. There are
occasional jazz opportunities at the
Blind Pig (which has cut back on live
music) and of course the Del Rio after-
noon session, a Sunday institution for
longer than anybody can remember.
The fact is, a band has a very limited
options if it wants to perform regularly
in Ann Arbor: play dance music or go
totally commerical.
Given this sort of situation, it
becomes obvious that only the love for
the music keeps groups like the
Bloom/Dondero Sextet together. Bloom
said the group's aim has been to
showcase original compositions such as
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Les Bloom: Golden horn
his own number, "Fair Weather," and
jazz standards that are less worn out
than jam session workhorses like
"Green Dolphon Street."
Most of the regular group is not
available for the upcoming show at the
Union. Guitarist Anderson is on
vacation, and pianist Adamson plays
regularly with a top-40 band. Bloom and
Dondero decided to take the oppor-
tunity to put together a group that
resembles the classic Art Blakey and
Max Roach groups of the Fifties. Big
band trombonist John Heatherington,
from Dearborn, and trumpeter Max
Gordon will find out the horn line, and
pianist Harvey Reed will sit in for
Adamson.
Hopefully the renovation of the U-
Club will be completed, or the show will
probably take place in the Ballroom, a
more barnlike, less intimate setting. At
any rate, a few dedicated individuals
are still playing jazz music in Ann Ar-
bor, and the U-Club deserves a lot of
credit for providing this showcase for
mature local talent.
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